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Details of projects and life as a practitioner

Summary:

Delving a bit deeper into the milestone projects undertaken by the architect, she mentions how her first project was the Holiday Inn project, but that she also worked on a senior citizens’ home which was memorable to her. This was with Somaya & Kalappa Consultants for which she was their representative on-site, and she goes on to talk about the finer details of the job, how she kept a life-long association with them and had done their renovations several times, etc. She recalls several innocent anecdotes from the time she first started engaging with contractors and engineers on site, and describes how she once told a client that she will pay for the reworking of an incorrect construction, recalling how it was a great learning period. She remarks though how perhaps a male practitioner would never feel the need to make a similar compensation for a work done wrong, and then details her experience working on a middle-income housing project with a government body. Speaking of projects where there has been more space for experimentation, she notes how she particularly enjoyed projects where clients allowed them to respond to climate, explore different materials, and more. She goes into detail about a few of such projects she worked on, how it made clients happy, but notes that these design processes take more time than usual and that is not always desirable. After sharing many such detailed experiences of working with different types of designers, construction workers, and enthusiastic engineers, she concludes the session by noting how wonderful it is to work with passionate practitioners in the field.

Practitioner:

Leena Kumar

Interviewee:

Leena Kumar

Interviewer:

Ishita Shah

Duration:

00.37.32

Mode:

Offline

Date:

06/05/2022

Language:
English

Highlights:
(00:08:08:07) Challenges in working with the government, (00:12:30:22) Concept for bicycle late separator, (00:22:09:24) Wood as a structural material, (00:25:30:25) Time is the demand now, (00:32:36:24) The construction process for the house of arches